The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced grants totaling $1.4 million in support of under-the-radar artist-driven projects.

Awarded through the foundation's Regional Regranting Program, the grants will support an expansion of the program to Cleveland and Denver as well as a reinstatement of its efforts in Baltimore, bringing to fourteen the number of sites supported by the foundation. Established in 2007, the program to date has awarded $6.4 million in grants to regranting organizations, resulting in $3.6 million in direct support to eight hundred and forty-eight artist projects.

In Cleveland and Denver, the funds will be regranted by nonprofit arts organizations SPACES and RedLine, while in Baltimore the funds will be regranted by the Grit Fund, which is reopening under the administration of Baltimore Arts Realty Corp. after a year-long hiatus. In Cleveland, SPACES' Satellite Fund will offer project-based grants of $6,000 each to ten artists in Cuyahoga County, while in Denver RedLine's INSITE Fund will award between ten and fifteen grants of up to $5,000 each and in Baltimore the Grit Fund will provide between nine and twelve awards of up to $7,000 each.

"Informal experimental artistic practice comprises the majority of visual arts activity in this country yet is often overlooked and lacks existing mechanisms for funding, which tend to favor high-profile exhibitions at large institutions," said Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs. "We are confident that the expansion of the program and the reinstatement of the Grit Fund will introduce many new innovative and public-facing artist projects into the grassroots arts communities of Baltimore, Cleveland, and Denver."